The previous seven novels were primarily about the incompetent wizard Rincewind, the cranky witch Granny Weatherwax, and Pratchett’s stern and surprisingly heroic version of the Grim Reaper. Guards! Guards! marks a major transition in the overall storyline of the Discworld novels. Only a few of the novels have been adapted into comics sadly, Hogfather, Pratchett’s brilliant take on Santa Claus and belief in general, is not one of them. This graphic novel is surprisingly rare, with new versions going for hundreds of dollars on Amazon I was lucky enough to find my copy at Zaldiva Comics, an excellent smaller comic book shop and eBay retailer in Ft. There are a few different entry points to the franchise, but one of the most solid (and my personal entry point) is the novel Guards! Guards!, adapted into a graphic novel by Graham Higgins and Stephen Briggs. Pratchett is a prolific author as well as an extremely brave one the fortieth Discworld novel is set to come out in 2014 even though he is dealing with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease. If you’re unfamiliar with it, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is a series of fantasy books whose primary purpose is to both parody and celebrate the numerous fantasy tropes. Instead, let’s take a look at one of the Discworld graphic novels. but I think Easter might be the better time to do so. It’s a book that definitely deserves examination. Michael Straczynski this week, but upon re-reading it, I realized just how gloomy it was. I planned on reviewing Midnight Nation by J.
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